ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- AtomPark Software Inc. (http://www.atompark.com), a software developer, announces the public release of its Bluetooth broadcasting software application Atomic Blue Sender 1.20 - a marketing solution able to send advertisements or other messages to passing mobile devices with Bluetooth enabled (http://www.abs-promo.com).

Using a Bluetooth system

Bluetooth broadcasting can be used as a new and innovative way to market products or simply to send useful information about opening hours, deadlines, special or calendar events, schedules, special offers and sales etc. in places where there are sure to be crowds; shopping centers, museums, concert halls, theatres, universities, company buildings and similar places.

WEST PATERSON, New Jersey, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Interactive Systems Worldwide, Inc. (Pink Sheets: ISWI) has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Global Interactive Gaming Limited (GIG), has extended its agreement with a subsidiary of Sportingbet Plc, the online sports betting and gaming group, until the end of 2011.

ARNHEM, The Netherlands, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consultancy, design and engineering company, has announced today that it has been awarded an $8.8 million work order from the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD). Building on its reputation as a global expert on water management issues, this SFWMD project is the largest work order currently awarded under the General Engineer Professional Services Contract for Civil and Structural Engineering.

The objective of this work assignment is to assist and support District staff in the execution and implementation of various programs and projects that include:

INGELHEIM, Germany, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- ESO Recommends Extended Time Window for Actilyse(R)

INGELHEIM, Germany, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- For Healthcare Media outside the U.S.A., Canada, and Japan

LONDON, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Mercuria Energy Group, one of the world's five largest private oil and petroleum products traders, is opening an office in Abuja, Nigeria on February 5th, 2009 a company spokesman has announced.

Mercuria Energy, which has its main trading floor in Geneva, Switzerland has been building both its sales of petroleum products in Nigeria, and purchases of crude oil there, for several years now. The company wants a presence in the community, so that we can be closer to both our customers and our suppliers said the spokesman.

SAN DIEGO, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Tepnel Brings Gen-Probe Current and Future Growth Opportunities in Transplant Diagnostics and Genetic Testing, Accelerates European Expansion Strategy -

Gen-Probe Incorporated (Nasdaq: GPRO), a pioneer and leader in nucleic acid diagnostics for human disease, announced today that it has offered to acquire all the outstanding and to-be-issued shares of Tepnel Life Sciences, PLC (AIM: TED), a rapidly growing molecular diagnostics company based in the United Kingdom, for 27.1 pence (US$0.386)(1) per share in cash, or approximately 92.8 million Pounds (US$132.2 million) in total.

BIRMINGHAM, England, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- A Birmingham-based company is set to become the next big internet online shopping sensation and give eBay a run for its money!

Officially launching in the Midlands on February 1st with an extensive ITV1 advertising campaign, it expects to have over 1 million customers within its first month of trading and to have over 10 million customers UK wide by the end of the year. As well as intending to create in excess of 50 jobs for people in Birmingham during the same timescale.

LONDON, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Misys, the UK banking and healthcare software maker, today released results for the six months ending 30 November 2008 crediting a 'resilient performance' to its differentiated business model.

The group reported revenue growth across all business divisions, despite what it described as difficult market conditions. Revenue was up 22% at GBP280m while operating profits from continuing operations nearly tripled to GBP72m.

In a video interview on financial broadcaster Cantos Mike Lawrie, Misys CEO, looks at the group's results including performance highlights, the integration of AllscriptsMysis, Banking performance and drivers, current trading and the outlook for the next six months.

How many Cardinals can fit on the head of a pin?   Still unknown, but Stanford physicists can at least tell us how many letters formed by quantum electron waves can fit on the surface of a sliver of copper - two; as in "S" and "U."   That's for 'Stanford' and 'University' if you haven't caught on and Cardinals are their ... oh, never mind, if you didn't already get it you stopped reading by now.

So how small is that? The letters in the words are assembled from subatomic sized bits as small as 0.3 nanometers, or roughly one third of a billionth of a meter.   Bonus: the wave patterns even project a tiny hologram of the data, which can be viewed with a powerful microscope.

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Reproduction involves some tricky trade-offs for all species, and anyone who has watched a David Attenborough film knows that you can find a wide range of reproductive strategies in nature. Some animals spend their energy producing hundreds or thousands of offspring and leave them to fend for themselves. Others, like whales and humans, produce only a few offspring but expend an enormous amount of resources trying to give those offspring the best chance in life possible.

Plants face a similar trade-off. They can choose to produce many energetically cheap small seeds, or fewer, more expensive large seeds. A recent paper in PLoS Genetics takes a look at one of the genes involved in seed size evolution. They study naturally-occurring genetic variation in found in this gene, and the relationship of that genetic variation to seed size in the domesticated tomato and its wild relatives.

Variation in Seed Size, Figure 1 from Orsi and Tanksley